Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform originally created at Yahoo! and now a top-level Apache Software Foundation project. Easy to deploy, lightweight compute process, developer-friendly APIs, no need to run your own stream processing engine. Run in production at Yahoo! scale for over 5 years, with millions of messages per second across millions of topics. Expand capacity seamlessly to hundreds of nodes. Low publish latency (< 5ms) at scale with strong durability guarantees. Configurable replication between data centers across multiple geographic regions. Built from the ground up as a multi-tenant system. Supports isolation, authentication, authorization and quotas. Persistent message storage based on Apache BookKeeper. IO-level isolation between write and read operations. Flexible messaging models with high-level APIs for Java, Go, Python, C++, Node.js, WebSocket and C#.
Features
- Create complex processing logic without deploying a separate neighboring system
- REST Admin API for provisioning, administration, tools and monitoring
- Can be deployed on bare metal, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services(AWS), and DataCenter Operating System(DC/OS)
- Proven in production, and horizontally scalable
- Low latency with durability, geo-replication, and multi-tenancy
- Supports isolation, authentication, authorization and quotas